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After finally going to see Star Trek: Into Darkness last night, I cannot help but feel lost in its utter weirdness. I am no stranger to the idea of multiple worlds, or dimensions, alternate timelines and the like, but these Trek movies really don’t appear to be about that, yet are nonetheless.

Into Darkness appears to be an odd expression of cinematic art. Its not a remake, yet it isn’t a completely new and original movie.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet, and are worried about the plot, characters and what have you being ruined by spoilers, you should probably turn away now. There will be SPOILERS.

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So, my latest e-book has finally passed Smashwords “Premium catalog” entry bar and is now available for a mere $1.25. Yes, for the price of a reasonable coffee (I’m using a Tim Horton’s double/double as a baseline) you can have a snappy tale of courtly manipulations, corrupt nobility, degenerate torture and rampant monkeys!

This tale was handcrafted over a series of many years, its cover hand-illustrated by myself and can be yours to enjoy digitally for a mere pittance. A cup of coffee is made in a few minutes, sold in seconds and enjoyed for perhaps an hour tops – if you nurse it, yet The Ear of a King can (theoretically) be enjoyed over and over again, and took many hours of loving artifice to bring to its fevered realization.

“The Ear of a King” is a short story centered around the lowly, manipulative and sometimes ethically bereft Wannear, a jester in the court of King Ecclesiastes the 18th, more commonly known as “King Eggo.” The Kingdom of Ulvendorf is falling apart at the seams after centuries of laziness, corruption and iron-handed military rule, but Eggo is the weakest of its rulers and many plots aim to remove him entirely. But Wannear realizes that a weak, kindly King, is better than a bloodthirsty, sadistic replacement and looks to see what he can do to preserve the peace. With Wannear’s conniving guile, a stolen coin in the right place and a testy, territorial monkey named “Xerxes” the Kingdom couldn’t be in safer hands, right?

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Sink into a degenerate kingdom of old, driven by lies, saved by fools. Now available at Smashwords and its affiliates.